Our own MLB draft

With the first pick in the 2008 mediocre 1990's MLB player draft, D.O. selects...

Sid Bream, 1B, Atlanta Braves!

And thus began our own MLB draft. In honor of today's Major League Baseball amateur player draft, we decided to have a little draft of our own. Four teams, 11 rounds, 44 mediocre players from the 90's. Every pick was like a little surprise, some guys you were expecting to be picked, some guys you had totally forgotten about, and some that we could never forget. And then we picked managers.

The draft started with the great Sid Bream, and the first round continued with Eddie Taubensee, Jeff Reboulet, and Mark Lemke. Mr. Irrelevant? Chris Sabo. We did this fantasy draft style, fishtailing back and forth. It made us laugh, and we hope you also. The basic rules were: The player had to play the bulk of their career in the 90's. They had to be good enough to be an everyday player for at least a few years, but not good enough to be considered actually good. Two All-Star appearances? Probably too good for this draft. They had to be somewhat recognizable, and they hopefully would make the other people laugh when they saw the pick. We think we did a pretty good job.

Below is the list of our teams, take a look. First names link to baseball-reference pages. Last names to pictures.

D.O.:
C: Ron Karkovice
1B: Sid Bream
2B: Mickey Morandini
3B: Steve Buechele
SS: Gary DiSarcina
OF: Jim Eisenreich
OF: Brian McRae
OF: Joe Orsulak
SP: Danny Darwin
RP: Mel Rojas
Util: Tony Eusebio
Manager: Jim Fregosi

Adam:
C: Eddie Taubensee
1B: John Jaha
2B: Delino DeShields
3B: Craig Paquette
SS: Benji Gil
OF: Pete Incaviglia
OF: Andy Van Slyke
OF: Devon White
SP: Cal Eldred
RP: Heathcliff Slocumb
Util: Pat Mears
Manager: Cito Gaston

JMC:
C: Damon Berryhill
1B: David Segui
2B: Jeff Reboulet
3B: Charlie Hayes
SS: Pat Listach
OF: Bernard Gilkey
OF: Lance Johnson
OF: B.J. Surhoff
SP: Bob Tewksbury
RP: Bobby Thigpen
Util: Joey Cora
Manager: Hal McRae (purely for this)

Zach:
C: Chris Hoiles
1B: Rico Brogna
2B: Mark Lemke
3B: Ed Sprague
SS: Tim Bogar
OF: Mike Devereaux
OF: Ron Gant
OF: Al Martin
SP: Doug Drabek
RP: Rick Aguilera
Util: Chris Sabo
Manager: Rene Lachemann

For the full run down of picks 1-44 and by team and round, look here. And now let the debate begin: who has the best team? Who had the best draft strategy? What pick was the best value? Funniest name? Most obscure player? Let's hear it in the comments.

Who has the best mediocre 90's team?
	D.O.
	Adam
	JMC
	Zach
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